Aug 1, 2012

Olympics.... should i watch or should i not

So its been a busy month, mainly with work but the Euros happened and now its the Olympics, so busy from a sporting perspective as well.
Back to the topic of my post, The 30th Olympics, XXX stands for 30 i think?, i always enjoy watching the games and every year there is controversy and this year is no different, but now i am starting to re-think my stance on watching the games, why should i watch? there have been so many allegations of matches being fixed, being thrown,doping etc., it leads one to believe there is no point anymore, does the athlete who has trained all his/her life for the event even stand a chance?

To answer my own questions i think they do, hard work eventually does pay off and those who did not win anything will come back stronger, especially if they think they were denied a medal because of officiating and or other reasons which are beyond comprehension.?Also i think will continue watching and XXX does stand for 30.

One thing though that has ticked me off is the case of 16 year old Ye Shiwen, so she swam an 'unthinkable' swim, hence we(the media) infer that she is on drugs or has been genetically manipulated( a man in a 16 yr old girls body), keep in mind there is no proof, but i guess its OK to call her a cheater maybe because she is Chinese?? and they have history of doping?. Note that she might have cheated but my point is that until anything can be proven all these sentiments and nonsense should be kept to one-self and not expressed publicly, she is 16, let her enjoy her gold medal, is that so hard to do??

Which brings me to the second point, 'judging sports' tend to be extremely biased, Boxing, Fencing, heck even badminton have major flaws and the IOC turns a blind eye, why? maybe because as some news outlets were calling it, 10 million dollars a promised for 2 Azerbaijani gold medals, again i have nothing against Azerbaijan i just wanted to point out an example of what might be going on in the world of amateur boxing.

The IOC like FIFA is filled with a bunch of bigots if i may use that word, prejudiced and self obsessed, and it is time common people like me and you started questioning how these organizations are run, after all they do it all for us, if there was no audience then what would be the point of sports and we(common people) should start leveraging that to make sport fair and not what governing bodies want it to be(kind of a paradox since they are there to ensure that sport is fair)

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